plump quotes

Give me the plumpVenetian, fat, and lusty, That meets me soft and supple, smiles upon me As if a cup of full wine leaped to kiss me.

-Fo, Dario
c.1621 The Wild-Goose Chase, act1, sc.2.

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.

-Roche, Sir Boyle
Quoted in SirJonah Barrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

  The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce: No grape that's kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice.

-Suckling, SirJohn
  'Ballad: Upon aWedding'.

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